praying with women doctors
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How’s Your Prayer Life?
Learning from the
Women Doctors St. Peter’s in the Loop – Chicago
October 30, 2014
Melanie Rigney
About the Doctors
What’s a Doctor of the Church?
How many are there?
About the women
Teresa of Avila (1515-1582; named a Doctor
October 1970)
Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897; October 1997)
Catherine of Siena (1347-1380; October 1970)
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179; October 2012)
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About Prayer
When do you pray?
Where do you pray?
How do you pray?
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Teresa of Avila
The early challenges
The four stages of prayer
The Interior Castle refinements
What we can learn
Be patient
Let the Lord be in charge
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Therese of Lisieux
The early challenges
The “Little Way” epiphany
What we can learn
Don’t overthink prayer
There’s no wrong way to talk
with God
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Catherine of Siena
The early challenges
The road to “perfection”
What we can learn
“Perfect” prayer is easier
than we think
Great learning is not
required to have a great
prayer life
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Hildegard of Bingen
The early challenges
Obedient yet bold
What we can learn
Prayer comes in many forms
Don’t make prayer harder
than it needs to be
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Summing It Up: Be patient with yourself… and God… in
prayer (He is).
Love God… and yourself (He does).
